Tag: "approved" at medical news

...include in their "formularies," the lists of drugs approved for coverage. "Manufacturers of new drugs make a r...t only if those differences are predictable. Drugs approved for the same problem often show equal efficacy on average, but their effects can vary widely between...

...combat these financial and systematic hurdles, was approved by the institutional review boards of Columbia University Medical Center and the University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa). The international group included researchers from Columbia University Medical Center: Dr. Wright and Louise Kuhn, Ph...

...e clinical trials, but no microbicide has yet been approved for human use. The Nature study was led by John P...pplied the third compound, which is similar to the approved anti-HIV drug Enfuvirtide (Fuzeon). During testing, researchers sedated the monkeys, applied the exp...

...one 45 mg and metformin 2,550 mg, according to the approved labeling. According to the American Diabetes Association, diabetes affects more than 18 million people, and type 2 diabetes is the most common form of the disease. Both ACTOS and metformin are widely used medications in the treatment of type 2 diab...

...on would greatly enhance control efforts. ELISPOT, approved for use in Europe, is being evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The study is published in the first issue for November 2005 of the American Thoracic Society's peer-reviewed American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine....

...de from colorectal cancer each year. 3 Xeloda was approved in the EU for post-surgery treatment of colorectal cancer in April 2005. Approval was based on data (X-ACT study) that showed Xeloda to be at least equal to 5-FU/LV in terms of effectiveness with a strong trend towards improvement with fewer severe s...

...per patient, and despite its effectiveness was not approved for funding in Ontario until after a media backlash. The drug represents the first of probably many new cancer treatments of this kind, say the authors. The new hope it gives to patients also highlights new cost issues - both for the drugs themselv...

...VNS) Therapy as a long-term treatment specifically approved by the FDA for treatment-resistant depression (TRD). VNS Therapy is approved as a long-term adjunctive (add-on) treatment for patients 18 years of age and older who are experien...

...ment available in oral and IV formulations that is approved as first-line therapy against both mould and yeast...ricin B followed by fluconazole, both of which are approved treatments for candidemia. However, amphotericin B is commonly associated with toxic effects, includ...

...drugs. A smaller percentage, but still a majority, approved of such surrogate decision-making for studies involving gene transfers, Alzheimer's protein "vaccines", spinal taps and brain tissue sampling. When the 229 study participants were asked which kinds of studies they themselves would allow if they were...

...ed that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved plans to begin a study to evaluate the safety of u...emia, a serious form of heart disease. The FDA has approved a Phase I study designed to test the safety of the procedure. It will involve injecting bone marrow...

...bility profile during the trial at all doses. The approved dose for adult patients is 20 mg per day. The majority of side effects occurred in the first month of the trial, diminished over time and were generally mild or moderate in nature. The most frequently reported drug-related adverse events included d...

...'t get any benefit from the drug. So, the FDA only approved it for use in patients with a high score. More sophisticated statistical analysis may at first seem daunting to researchers and journal editorial boards not accustomed to such statistical methods, but Hayward notes that doctors in hospital intensive...

...y compares MEDI-493, a monoclonal antibody already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat respiratory synctial virus, or RSV, to the more potent MEDI-524, says Dr. Jatinder Bhatia, chief of the MCG Section of Neonatology and a principal investigator. "A casual sniffle for adults can be de...

...meeting in Washington, DC. The only drug currently approved for ischemic stroke treatment is tPA (tissue plasminogen activator), which breaks up blood clots the cause of most strokes. However, tPA must be given within three hours following a stroke to be effective and few patients arrive at the hospital quic...

...f healthcare professionals, reviewers overwhelming approved the content and indicated they intend to read the literature to become better informed, distribute it to patients and families of patients, share it with colleagues, and recommend it to other pediatric healthcare professionals, says Dr. Katz. Overall...

... deaths annually in the United States. Bortezomib, approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2003 for relapsed myeloma patients and subsequently for patients who have received at least one prior treatment, demonstrated in clinical trials that it extended the time to disease progression and also improved...

...l activity. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Gleevec as a treatment for CML about five years ag...ustria among patients with asthma, it has not been approved by the FDA for use in the United States . Perrotti and his research team tested the effects of fors...

... medical and legal costs. The alcohol biomarker is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but Fleming said that many primary care physicians do not know about the CDT technology. CDT is not a test for alcoholism; it can't judge whether a patient is dependent on alcohol, Fleming said. But the test ...